Trip With Me

I like posting music videos – it doesn’t require a whole lot of writing, it attracts a lot of readers and it’s always interesting to sort of match the music and the visualizations, to see if the video complements the track or is it more like a mini-film that uses the song as soundtrack (not...

Amon Tobin knows. Everything. In particular that we all are waiting for his new album ISAM with about-to-piss-my-pants kind of excitement. And that we are a bit scared – what if it’s too crazy, what if if is too different from what we used to (= what we want to hear). We will find out...

Better late than never: most of you have already seen the new Amon Tobin music video for “Esther’s”. But maybe some of you haven’t yet. Either way, I think you’ll enjoy it. The song is excruciatingly good, and the video is creative and beautiful. The ending is a bit cheesy for my taste, but I...

Two short clips showing Amon Tobin playing around with sounds designed for his new album. Click image to go to website and take a look at ‘some rough controller notes’ (I’m sure that means something to someone :)). ‘Designer Sounds’ clip ‘Liquifyer’ clip

Amon Tobin is going to be a regular in “Film Friday” tag. I mean, the guy does a lot of soundtracks. For all kinds of video products. How does he find these gigs, I don’t know (and don’t actually care all that much), but he does, and now even if we hate the visual part...

Everything genius is pretty fuckin’ far from simple. I can’t even start to imagine how difficult it must be to create something as beautiful and structurally perfect as Amon Tobin‘s dark masterpiece “Bloodstone”. And yet guys from Kronos Quartet managed to top even that, covering the song without pressing a single button. Everything genius is...